Well this has been quite the eventful month: I graduated and now Christmas! Which for me means my Mom and Dad hooked me up on books.
Graduation Books:
Studies in Matthew by Dale Allison
Acts: Anchor Bible Commentary by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Luke: NICNT by Joel B. Green
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible by John Walton
Christmas Books:
The Birth of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
The Death of the Messiah vols 1 and 2 by Raymond Brown
Matthew: Sacra Pagina by Daniel J. Harrington
Mark: Sacra Pagina by Donahue and Harrington
Luke: Sacra Pagina by Luke Timothy Johnson
I would love to read The Birth of the Messiah by Brown, it would also be interesting to read Sacra Pagina series.
I cant stand Walton on the other hand 😉
Mike, I see ya got some Catholic theolog’s there! 🙂
Yes, mainly Catholics! Honestly I prefer that they are typically more conservative than “protestants” (Liberals), yet they do extremely good exegetical study. There are a good many good evangelicals doing theology (Green, Blomberg, Wright, Witherington, etc), yet I have many of their books already. I may end up being a Anglo-Catholic 😉
Mike,
There is a part of me, that will always be Anglo-Catholic. Just the amount of British theolog’s that were such, note even the rather liberal or open Bishop Charles Gore. Gore has always been like an Anglican Barth to me. He causes me to think and dig! Also today Tom Wright, though I don’t agree with his NPP, he makes one read and find his doctrine. Yes, the best of the Anglican via-media…catholic & reformed. May we press for it!
Note, I am a Reformed or “Calvinist” Anglican. And right now I am enjoying something of the Federal Vision movement (High-Church Presbyterians). Though I am not without my real criticism with it/them! But, like all human movements and aspects within the Church Theological, it has its feet of clay.
Btw, I have met Joe Fitzmyer..he is a good man, as I remember he is about ten years older than me. Yeah, I am geting older myself! lol At one time he was considered the chief Pauline scholar in the Roman Church. His Anchor Roman’s is still good!
Thank you for you interaction with me Fr Robert, I always enjoy your insights. The flexibility of the Anglican church is very appealing to me! I just pray the church stays firm on the Gospel!
Mike,
Indeed, this is a real concern for many of us Anglicans! At least there are many faithful Anglican teachers before the Lord, and we can still read their faithful works.
Oh Lord give the Anglican Communion your mind and blessed renewal! Amen. (1 Cor. 2:16)
Amen!
Hi Mike,
Great take on the books. Very excellent selection. We should sit and chat sometime at the coffee shop. Congratulations again on your accomplishment.
Please post your thoughts on what you read from time to time. Especially regarding the Catholic writers.
Lately, I’ve been reading up on second order theological issues such as method, bibliology, theories of revelation (not the book), inspiration, etc. Carl F. H. Henry does an excellent job in God, Revelation, and Authority, but despite concerns over subjectivism, I’ve also been reading Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. I’ve just learned that he was an evangelical and did much to recover Protestantism from Liberalism.
Michael
Hey mike thanks for stopping by! Get your blog back up. I would love to do coffee and will give some gleanings from the books as well.